After years of listening to conservatives and evangelicals preach about how much they love everyone while heaping hatred on liberals, I believe I understand why.
Simply put, liberals make conservatives and evangelicals look bad.
Liberals actively support policies and introduce bills designed to make real the ideals which conservatives and evangelicals claim to support. Liberals know that passing legislation involves compromise and that neither they nor their policies are perfect. Yet they persist.
Conservatives and evangelicals, on the other hand, use the rhetoric of piety and patriotism to wrap themselves in fake moral superiority in order to hide the fact that they consistently seek to keep those ideals from becoming law.
The man in this cartoon has stopped to consider the consequences of his choice. He may go to the left; he may go to the right, but he knows he has a choice to make. He is clearly a liberal.
Conservatives and evangelicals who arrive at that spot do not hesitate. They simply go to the right and claim that a left turn would lead to socialism, attacks on religion, and the undermining of individual freedom.
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